An ex-British Airways IT staffer has been convicted of plotting to blow up a plane.
Rajib Karim, 31, was found guilty of four counts of engaging in preparation for terrorist attacks at Woolwich Crown Court.
He planned the attack with al-Qaeda associate and preacher Anwar al-Awlaki.
The jury found that the defendant used his job to enable him to share information about BA and its planes and offered to help with attacks on the airline.
The man, from Bangladesh, was “seeking martyr” status via the planned attack and was a committed jihadist, the court was told.
He had, however, never aired any of these views in public and was a mild mannered man, according to lawyers. But he was found to have used his access to BA information to spread confidential data.
by Dinah Hatch
